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New. This is a monographic, fully original treatment devoted to fish and dolphin swimming mechanics, with an up-to-date review of the modern concepts of and approaches to biohydrodynamics. The opinion is supported and advanced that at least the dolphins show certain mechanisms to control the boundary layer and to decrease the hydrodynamic friction resistance (Gray`s paradox). The treatise is destined for students and specialists in biology, hydrodynamics and hydromechanics. Professor Evgeny V. Romanenko, DSc, Deputy of the A. N. Severtzov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Since 1960, one of Russia`s leading research fellows in the field of bio-hydrodynamics, with special emphasis on the locomotion of such active and successful swimmers as fish and dolphins. His first monograph, of 1976, entitled "Foundations of statistic bio-hydrodynamics" (Moscow) focused on the study of the fine structure of the boundary layer in free-living fish and dolphins. The next monograph, of 1986, entitled "Theory of fish and dolphin swimming" (Moscow), concentrated on a mathematical simulation of the mechanisms controlling the formation of a favorable gradient of the dynamic pressure on undulating fish and dolphin bodies. Finally, his recent monograph, of 2001, entitled "Hydrodynamics of fishes and dolphins" (Moscow), represents a Russian prototype of the present paper, with several new theoretical and experimental results in body and fluke kinematics just proposed.
